Scrubbing and mopping machine



April 8 192456 A. MADRlss SCRUBBING AND MOPPING MACHINE 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 Filed Aug. "18 1921 V/d ATTO R N E Y April 8 1924.

A. I. MADRISS SCRUBBING AND MOPPING MACHINE 3 Sheers-Sheet 2 Filed Aug. 18. 1,921

D n m Ami! 1924 Filed Aug. 18.- 1921 s Sheets-Sheet 3 YINVENTOR fW m/s 1 ATTORNEY W die 66 as shown in l i" g extemhng irom their inner aces the screws 138.

ing from the lower free 0' an opening 156 in wail 5 bristles of the brush 9*! to touch the foot so be brushed as shown 1Z1 1, 2 and and. can be locked with a similar cavity 106 when the arm is located in its reisecl position to raise the brush. 9? from the floor as incli- W oatecl in Fig 3. Guide clamps 107 and. 108

are fastened to the handle and partly ere tend around the operating arm 100 to guisle it. Openings 110 are formed in 95 and they engage guide pins 112 extending from.

m the brackets 68, m sliclebly eoimeoe them thereto.

An arm .115 has 'PiVOiIQQl to its upper end the bar 116 and the laeter has attached thereto the operating handle 11?. guide rod 39 118 has its encls to one side of the handle 66. A guide bracket 120 is indicated with the sleeves 121 and 122. The sleeve 121 is raster-eel to the bar 116 end the sleeve 122 is sli iebly supported on the guide 9353 rod 118. A leech is indicated with the pin 123, one latch plug" 1% and the c-pcrab ingelisc 125. The pin QXQQDClS *i'hrou an opei' iii the bar 116 The latch. pl k 1%. can look, with e *i'by 126 in the l igs. 1, 2 and 5 when the arm 1 5 is'in its raised position and with o s' i'iilsr ceity 127 when the "o 115 is in lowered posit-ion as shown in Fig. 3. A. of curved arms 130 have the clamp ing lugs 18L Gross heads 13 2 are slidel supported in (he graide Op-Gnlngs and. have each extending iroir their inner faces the plugs 183 to which pivoted one end 40 of each of the eiirvecl arms 130 by means of the pivots 1341-. To the Miler ends of the arms 130 is fastened the shaped cross brackethaving i-he elongated openings 136 in its side inlembers 137, by means of A second U shaped cross bracket 4:0 is s-Eljoslebly fas ieneel to the brackets 135 by moons of the screws 1-} and. has extending therefrom {L longitudinal. arm Which-is pinned to Zhe operating 59 arm 115 by means of the pin. 1 :31 mop ,1 121 is clamped between the brackeis 13.5 and 110.

An operating arm 1e 5 in the guide brackets 1 6 A clamping" screw 1 18 for the bracket 1e,

enables the arm 1 15 30 clamped in ferent positions. An operzzr'iing handle fie is provicleei for the rip is; end of the 11 An angels she-peel linlz; 159 has end. pinned to the arm 1 15 by means pin 151 and on m1 152 is pinned to "a lower end of the link by means of 11h pin 153. Outlet piping 155 extends iron-i oil? the re- 21 o-nc l has connected thereto a plug i'iie orn'i is connected to the lug v- 157. A spray pipe enings 161 is connected to the dies in. 3 and 4-. To obtain this position for the brush 9? the operating liencllo 161 0'). the operating arm 100 is moved Cl.OYi11-V2LT(il um'iil the latch plug 103 in and locked with the cavity 105, as llLllCR'iH l in Fig. 2. At the szun-e time the operating handle 11E is moved to its uppcri'nosi', position, so that the latch plug lie: is seated. in and loci-zeal with the cavity 1:26 indicated. in Fig. 2. This locates the cm v in their aised position .o :11- "S inn with tbe mop lillbeaming on the rollers and. .511 the some time the rollers and 8 3% are located in their lowereo posi lion l., a the mop 1&1 by lmvering the ope? 1 arm (8 mil looking it position by means oi sniping screw 89. Witt-er 1, id. sozip or oil 2r cl aning fluid are placed the. lower receptacle and the e valve 157 is turned to its open means of the operating handle 14* machine is now moved on the floor. by means oi: the handle 66 and the brush 9? scrubs the {loo}: While water issues from the openings 161 of the spray pipe iii; the some time the rotations of the roller 18 are ironsniittecl to the roller 57 and lbs rotations the roller 1-9 are trimsniit tecl iio the 2 er (31 and thereby the mop 1 14 is run. b o\ 111 the said rollers 5T, (31 82, Si. the ldiier being in their lowered position By this means the water is pressed from. the mop 1 2- 1 and drops into the upper cio 20 and, from the latter flows 1 the screen 528 and overflow openings the lo rer receptacle 21, The openings 23 are above the bollon'i Wall and thereby the dirt of water in the receplieele 20 elloo l Lo settle the bottom thereof the so receptacle with openings "forming :1 imp. In on it is desire l to use the mop 1M- ?)T, the said. mop is mi sition as shown in To lo ehio F 1 ed. to hair l'fi-lSCl position shown 11 Fig by raising; the operating arm 78 .ing ii} in the clamping screw ilez; the m1 11:2

position by means o 89.

1e rollers and s4 is located and. looked. in 1 it to 1 under the ings 130 in their he Knob lei is thereby of be machine and of room I v'liile d e brush 9" scentt the n on flock: the pairs ft-s as the upper chain connecting the 1: each -Oi' .1118 rollers jouinaied in the tacie, means to dejacent to tile first pair 0? rollers in the upne? receptacie and outlet piping leading Iroin the lower "receptacle.

3. in. a machine of the character described tine combination of a paii of receptacies one above the other, the upper receptacle having openings to conduct a fluid to the lower receptacle, roliers supporting the upper receptacie and rollers supporting the iower rec-e tacle, roiiers journaled in the side walls o. the upper receptacle, means to turn the latter sellers with the rotations oi the roilers supporting: the upper recap tacle, e'utiet piping extending 'l'iozntbe lower receptacle,- an operating arm slidably connected to the main handle, a valve in the outiet, pipingand means to actuate the valve with the operations of the operating arm, the arm swinging with the main handle,

in a machine of the character decribed the combination of a pair of recepc es one above the 'otner, a main handle ln ied to the upper receptacle, guide brackets having guide openings extending from the side Wads of the receptacles, cross heads s 'iabl supported in the guide openings, a ganc1 with'one end of each pivoted to the cross heads, pair of ozoss brackets connecting the arms at the other end thereof, a longitudinai arm extending from one of the cross brackets, a mop clamped be tween the cross brackets, and an opei'ating siidably supported on the main handie one end thereof pinned to said longitndinal arm and swinging with said main bandie.

1E machine of the character de- O scribed the ceni'binationof a receptacle, a

pair of lOilGlS turning in the receptacle with. the movements of the truck, a pair of vertical guide brackets extending from pair of Walls of the receptacle, 2i main handle hinged to a ali of the receptacle,

guide bracket supported on the operating handle, an operating arm with one end pivotally and adjnstably connected to the guide bracket, cross member at the other end of the operating arm, side members extending from the cross member and a pair of shafts with rollers journaled in the side members, one of said shafts guided in the guide brackets, the said operating arm swinging with the main handle.

Signed at the borough of Manhattan, city of New York. in the county of New York and State ofilew York, this 13th day of August, A. D. 1921.

. ARRAHAH I. EQiDRISS. 

